Location: Talisker Distiller, Carbost, Isle of Skye, Highlands
Route: Talisker Distiller – Carbost Pier on Loch Harport
Click here for an old OS Map of the route.
Length: 3/4 mile
Zoom in on the map below to see the trackplan at Carbost pier.
Date opened: 1900
Date closed: 1948
Gauge: 2’/60cm
Owner: Talisker Distillery
Engineer: Unkown
Contractor: Unkown
Photos:
Update – Click here for photos from 2013 – track no longer visible due to improvements to the pier and access track.
The entrance to the quay at Carbost looking back towards the distillery. Image © Gordon Thomson
Entrance to the loop on the quay at Carbost Image © Gordon Thomson
Looking on to the pier showing the return siding to where the shed was located Image © Gordon Thomson
Looking from the head of the pier. The shed which housed some stock was located to the right, the route to the distillery is to the left Image © Gordon Thomson
Looking from the distillery along the route of the tramway towards Carbost Pier Image © Gordon Thomson
Part way along the route looking towards the distillery Image © Gordon Thomson
Stock:
Locomotives:
Initially horse worked, during the latter years of operation a road tractor was used.
Passenger:
None
Goods:
- Small 4 wheeled open wagons with side-tip mechanism for conveying coal to the distillery from the pier
- 10′ long flat wagons for transporting whisky casks, barley and barrels
Current status:
Closed, some rails are visible near the pier where they are set in concrete. One of the flat wagons is preserved in private ownership in the Broadford area of the Isle of Skye.
Publications:
Models:
No layouts of, or based on, this line known of.
Links:
http://www.discovering-distilleries.com/talisker/
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jhb/whisky/smws/14.html
